Adults only.Amp'd Mobile Amp'd Mobile was a mobile phone service launched in the United States in late 2005. The company was a Mobile Virtual Network Operator and operated on the Verizon Wireless CDMA EV-DO network. Its primary non-Venture Capital investors were MTV Networks and Universal Music Group. Inc., the upstart Los Angeles-based mobile phone content provider, is planning to offer adult content on its network in an effort to capture the 18-35 market. But users will have to wait a while. The company, which plans to launch this month, wants to offer adult content from LFP LFP left frontoposterior (position of the fetus). Inc.'s Hustler hustler Sexology A ♂ paid to service–nudge, nudge, wink, wink–♀ or other ♂ magazine and other sources. That will not happen, however, until U.S. cell carriers figure out a way to enact reliable age-verification controls. Currently, no U.S. cell carriers allow users to access anything more than tame bikini-type shots, although age-verification talks are underway at the Cellular Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and Internet Association. Meantime, adult content distributors such as Denver, Colo.-based Brickhouse Mobile are largely limited to overseas cell phone markets. Still, Brickhouse expects mobile phones, given their widespread use and advances in handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. and video quality, will help drive demand for premium adult content. "There are several billion cellular handsets out there," said L.R. Clinton Fayling, president of Brickhouse. "All of those could be potential customers." Staff reporter Anne Riley-Katz can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 230, or at ariley-katz@labusinessjournal.com. Staff reporter Kate Berry contributed to this column. |
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